Principal IT Business Partner

About the role

This role serves as the primary IT advisor to the business, building trusted relationships and ensuring alignment between business priorities and IT strategy.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary IT advisor to the business, building trusted relationships and ensuring alignment between business priorities and IT strategy.
• Translate business objectives into prioritized IT roadmaps, investments, and outcomes.
• Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and alignment gaps through effective governance and stakeholder engagement.
• Workforce Lifecycle & Human Capital Management (HCM) Process and Enablement:
  • Partner with HR leadership across workforce strategy, talent acquisition, learning, performance, rewards, and HR operations to translate business priorities into an integrated HCM roadmap and technology portfolio.
  • Drive alignment, integration, and automation across the end-to-end workforce lifecycle (hire-to-retire), including recruiting, onboarding, development, compensation, employee relations, payroll, and offboarding, to improve employee experience, data quality, and operational efficiency.
  • Ensure HCM solutions are secure, compliant, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, data, cybersecurity, and workforce management standards.
• Business Partnership & Strategy Alignment:
  • Align business priorities with IT strategy, roadmaps, and investment plans.
  • Identify opportunities to improve business performance through process optimization, automation, analytics, and digital capabilities.
  • Provide strategic technology guidance informed by business needs and industry trends.
• IT Demand, Portfolio & Governance:
  • Lead IT demand intake, prioritization, and business case development to maximize business value and strategic alignment.
  • Align initiatives with enterprise architecture, portfolio objectives, and funding priorities.
  • Facilitate governance decisions by providing transparency into investments, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• Cross-IT Coordination & Delivery Alignment:
  • Coordinate across IT (TMO, Enterprise Architecture, delivery teams, service owners, and Business Partners) to ensure demand is effectively shaped, funded, and executed.
  • Drive alignment across cross-functional dependencies, shared platforms, and delivery timelines.
  • Ensure business requirements are accurately represented through delivery and solution implementation.
• Value Realization & Outcomes:
  • Ensure the business defines and validates benefit measures, and holds ownership for tracking adoption, realizing benefits, and performance against business case objectives.
  • Create feedback loops with stakeholders to continuously improve solutions, processes, and portfolio outcomes.
  • Provide transparency on progress, risks, and outcomes to support stakeholder and executive decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or above) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in IT management, business analysis, relationship management, technology consulting, product management, or enterprise IT roles.
• Strong capability in business stakeholder engagement and alignment, translating business needs into business cases, analytical problem-solving, conflict resolution, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of time on average.
• Demonstrated expertise across key HR domains, including workforce strategy and organization design, talent acquisition, learning and development, performance management, total rewards and compensation, and HR service delivery and employee relations.
• Deep understanding of end-to-end H2R processes and data flows, spanning recruitment, onboarding, workforce management, development, compensation, payroll, and offboarding.
• Deep knowledge of integration between core HCM suites with external downstream systems.
• Proven ability to influence configuration and optimization across key HCM modules (e.g., Talent Acquisition, Learning Management, and Performance/Compensation).
• Expertise in managing workforce lifecycle events (e.g., hiring, promotions, transfers, relocations, leave of absence, and exits) and enabling associated workflow triggers and automation.
• Solid understanding of change management and digital adoption practices to enable effective rollout and sustained use of HR technologies.
• In-depth understanding of data privacy and security requirements, including safeguarding sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) under data privacy laws and frameworks.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package including employer-subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays. For more information visit: [link]

About Solstice Advanced Materials

Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. Solstice offers high-performance solutions that enable critical industries and applications, including refrigerants, semiconductor manufacturing, data center cooling, nuclear power, protective fibers, healthcare packaging and more. Solstice is recognized for developing next-generation materials through some of the industry's most renowned brands such as Solstice®, Genetron®, Aclar®, Spectra®, Fluka™, and Hydranal™. Partnering with over 3,000 customers across more than 120 countries and territories and supported by a robust portfolio of over 5,700 patents, Solstice’s approximately 4,000 employees worldwide drive innovation in materials science. For more information, visit [Advanced Materials link]